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Andrea Torrey Balsara
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🌱 Sharing Stories, Art & Energy Healing Work
📚 Kidlit Author & Artist ⎮ Reiki Master 💜
🦋 Discover Books 🦋 Workshops 🦋 Coaching ⬇️ click link below

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The BEST thing about the market? Talking to people. 💜 🥰

#BookLovers #HolidayMarkets #CreativeConversations #ChildrensBooks #YoungAdultBooks #ArtistLife #MentalHealthMatters #EnergyHealing #InspirationEverywhere
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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💜 Just for today, I'm focusing on what makes me happy--my family, my dogs, volunteering at the donkey sanctuary, enjoying the first snowfall of the season. ❄️

#MindfulCreativity #CreativeWellness #HealingThroughArt #EnergyForCreatives #FocusOnJoy #EverydayMindfulness 💜 🌟 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I’ll be at the Holiday Market in Oshawa this Saturday, Nov 8 with my picture books & YA novels—great gifts for readers of all ages! Over 40 local makers & vendors will be there too. Come say hi! 📚✨

#CanadianAuthor #CanadianIllustrator #ChildrensBooks #YAFiction #ShopLocalCanada #ReadersOfCanada
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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A girl who can speak to animals. 🌟
A rat who serves a tyrant. 🐀
A secret that could destroy them both.The Great & The Small — a YA story of survival & finding light in the darkness. 💔 ✨

#CBCBooks #CanadianBooks #DarkYA #BookTrailer #StorytellingMatters #BookTokCanada #BookMarketing #IndieAuthor
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Ever notice how, no matter how much you achieve, it can still feel like you’re not enough? 🎨✍️ For many of us — especially those carrying old wounds — that feeling runs deep. 💔

#CreativeHealing #MindfulCreativity #ArtistsMentalHealth #SelfCompassion #HealingThroughArt #MentalHealthMatters
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Going down the Halloween aisle past life-size "witches," I realized what I was seeing: older women. Here’s to us “witches.” 💜🦋

Read my blog — link in bio. 🔗

#WomenOver60 #CreativeAging #HealingThroughArt #MentalHealthMatters #EnergyMedicine #FeminineStrength #ArtistLife #AuthorLife
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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These coloring pages include questions that spark meaningful conversations. Use them--and if you have suggestions for more topics, I'd love to hear them. Tag me; I'd love to see your finished pages! 💜 🎨

#CharacterDevelopment #MindfulParenting #RaisingLeaders #CreativeKids #ConsciousParenting
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When the rights of Black people and people of color are trampled, the rights of ALL people are trampled ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿.

The oppression of one is the oppression of ALL. #UnityinDiversity is a TRUTH.

#HumanRights #UnityInDiversity #EqualityForAll #StandTogether #SocialJustice #OneHumanFamily #LoveIsStronger
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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My picture books come with free colouring pages you can download from my website. 🖍️📚 They make great gifts for kids—I also do school presentations if your class or library is looking for a visit. 📚 Click link for details. 💛

#kidlitillustrator #picturebookauthor #CanKidLit #readaloudbooks #kidlit
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I have some new paintings! 🎨💛
I really love these. They're still available—message me if you want details.

#artistlife #intuitiveart #healingthroughart #mixedmediaartist #creativeflow #artasanoffering #quietcreativity #soulfulart #originalartforsale #CanKidLit #Illustrator
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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When we’re stuck in fear, everything scrambles—our thoughts, our nervous system, our energy ⚡🧠 In this video, I’ll walk you through a simple energy medicine technique to help fear move through you—so it can finally release. 👋😮‍💨

#energyrelease #emotionalclearing #ptsdtools #nervoussystemsupport
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving!! May we all find ways of helping others, being of service, being grateful for our blessings, and sharing them. 💜✨💓

#CanadianThanksgiving #GivingThanks #Thankful #SpiritofGiving #helpingothers #makeadifference #CanKidLit #Kidlitauthor #Canada
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This month's newsletter is about the all the stuff I pushed down and REALLY didn't want to deal with.

This month, I DEALT with it. 😱🎨

Read the full story → click the link in my bio. 💪🏻

#healingthroughart #artistjourney #firstartshow #innerwork #ptsdrecovery #artisanoffering #CanKidLit #PTSDHope
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If we want a world of compassion, of true justice--a world based on kindness and mutual respect--it starts with the way we treat animals. #WorldAnimalDay - Oct 4.
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#BeKindToAnimals
#AnimalRescue
#DonkeySanctuary
#DonkeysOfBluesky
#AnimalAdvocacy
#BeTheChange
October 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A good day at the Savannah Marketplace at @junglecatworld 🥰

I even met some new friends, like “Tiny” the giant tortoise, a 21 yr-old rescue. 🐢 ❤️

#artistsofbluesky #kidlitillustrator #kidlitauthor #yaauthor #writerslifeforme #CanKidLit
Shows a table of children’s books for sale and me standing next to the table. Shows a small gallery of my wildlife paintings. Me, showing a painting that has sold. A giant tortoise going for a walk.
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I'm excited about sharing my paintings for the first time & a little nervous! 😅 I'll be selling my books as well, incl. The Great & the Small. Please come out!! 💜

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#SupportLocal #DurhamRegion #Clarington #shoplocal #andreatorreybalsara #kidlitauthor #kidlitartist #yalit #savannahmarketplace
September 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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After years of writing, revising, and starting over—my sister and I BOTH have our novels featured in the September issue of Kirkus Reviews. Same month, same magazine. After DECADES of separate work! 🦋

#AuthorLife
#IndieAuthorCommunity
#FictionThatMatters
#TruthInFiction
#YAfiction
#KeepWriting
September 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I'm proud to be joining so many amazing local businesses at the Savannah
Marketplace at @JungleCatWorld on September 27, where I will be selling my books & paintings! 📚🖌️💜

Grab tickets ➡️ junglecatworld.com/tickets.html...
#SavannahMarketplace #SupportLocal #ShopLocal #DurhamRegion #Clarington
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I thought I would share some images that I did a while ago. Visit my gallery to see more! 🌟

There will be more soon, that I will share as soon as they are finished.😍

#GalleryShare #Kidlitillustrator #artistsofinstagram #AndreaTorreyBalsara #ATBalsara #ArtAsTherapy #CanKidlit
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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As a #kidlit writer/illustrator & as a #trauma survivor, I know what kids need to feel happy.

It's NOT more stuff.

What do kids need to be happy? To feel NEEDED, VALUED & LOVED. 💜

The #coloringpages on my website spur conversations that matter.

#ConversationsAboutCharacter #BeingofService
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Lately I've been on overwhelm & so did some painting. 🦋

There's something about drawing/painting/illustrating that reminds me who I am. 💜 💜 💜

These illos are from the #YA book, Gavin the Great. 🌟
I ❤️ these.

#YABooks #CanKidLit #KidLitIllustrator #artistsofbluesky #mentalhealth #PTSDTherapy
A black and white illustration of two mice and a mole being washed over a small raft by a big wave. An illustration of a mouse clinging to the side of a beaver as they rise from the water. A black and white illustration of two raccoons. One is big, but injured and is laying in the dirt. The smaller raccoon is cradling the bigger one. An illustration of two rabbits, a raccoon and a porcupine swimming in rough waters.
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Courageous writing helps us build a world rooted in dignity and unity in diversity. In my Sept newsletter: Fox Creek by Michele Torrey—a powerful novel that shatters the lie of “us” and “them.”

Link in my bio & comments!

#FoxCreek #Newsletter
#WritersForJustice #NoUsAndThem #BookReview
September 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Today I have been painting to such uplifting music--"Sacred" by Natalie Fee, is SO BEAUTIFUL.

I have no photos yet of what I'm painting, so I'm adding a photo from a camping trip last year of a gorgeous tree. ❤

#creativeprocess #JoyfulMoments #paintingtips #artistsofbluesky
A dead tree at the edge of a lake that has been burnished by water and is now beautiful driftwood. The background sky is cloudy pale blue, and the water is a light green. The sand is a soft tan.
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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For those who feel helpless...💜
This is for you.
#UnityInDiversity #WorldPeaceIsInevitable #BeTheChange #LoveOverHate #SeekTruth
August 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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When an abandoned cat darted into my house one Halloween night, I had no idea what he’d teach me about love, trust, and resilience. 🐾💫

In my newsletter, I share his story—and how I painted his portrait. 🎨

💌 Link’s in my bio & in the comments.

#ArtAndHealing
#RescueCat
#PaintingTips
August 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM